Climate change is bringing more droughts, heat waves and powerful rainstorms, shifts that will require governments to change how they cope with natural disasters to protect human lives and the world economy, a new U.N. report says. [More]
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Global warming is leading to such severe storms, droughts and heat waves that nations should prepare for an unprecedented onslaught of deadly and costly weather disasters, an international panel of climate scientists said in a new report issued Wednesday.
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Increasingly, Texas Tech climatologist Katharine Hayhoe sees her mission as one of outreach. At one level, that means talking to professionals who need information on climate to do their jobs. But the evangelical Christian is also talking to ordinary people who are simply skeptical about the whole business.
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A pair of graphs demonstrates most vividly the impact solar is having on electricity prices in Germany and why utilities there and elsewhere are desperate to reign in its growth: Solar is not just licking the cream off the profits of the fossil fuel generators, it is eating their entire cake.
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Major changes are needed in agriculture and food consumption around the world if future generations are to be adequately fed, a major report warns. Farming must intensify sustainably, cut waste and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from farms, it says.
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Warmer temperatures are leading some experts to warn that tick activity is starting earlier than usual this year, putting more people at risk. Often hard to diagnose and tricky to treat, tick-borne illnesses — led by Lyme disease — can have serious and long-term complications.
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